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Life Transition Points and the Effect on the Housing Market
This year, 2020, has offered us so many different challenges, but the housing market has stayed hot. How could that be? Record layoffs, unprecedented unemployment, stock market volatility and so on. The housing market has been hot: a low invent...Lake Are Free Clinic
Photo credit: Lake Area Free Clinic and Ocreative All bidding for the Gala will be done through Text2Bid. Preview our Silent Auction items on this site beginning September 1. Silent Auction using Text2Bid begins on Saturday, Septembe...Why Inspect?
The process of buying a home is nerve racking for many reasons. It is a large investment; it is the beginning of a lot of work to move from your old home and it is change. Worrying about what shape the home we are buying is in, is important,...
Spring Bank – Oconomowoc Lake
Photo Credit: http://www.oconlake.com/ A masquerade ball given by Fred Pecks at the Townsend House Hotel (now the site of the roundabout in Okauchee near the prior Coach house that still remains there) brought Captain Tom Parker and h...Surviving in a Seller’s Market
What is the difference between a buyer’s and a seller’s market? As its name suggests, a buyer’s market is beneficial to the buyer and a seller’s market is beneficial to a seller. A buyer’s market is a market in which the supply is ...I am a buyer looking for the perfect home, where do I begin?
The process of buying a home is big and so is the financial investment. Choosing an agent is an important part of the process and should not happen by chance. Using the agent my cousin likes or who was at the open house may not end up being t...
Markham Estate
At the end of the 19th century, America already had a long history of beer drinking. By the end of the 1800s, good beer was well established by Midwest families whose names in the industry are yet popular today. Several built their summ...
Evinrude and Okauchee Lake
This week, an icon originating from our community, is shuttering its doors after 100 years of making motors. Sadly, it was announced this week that the Canadian company BRP, Inc. the manufacturer, of Evinrude outboard engines, announced i...